4 Spring Foods and Recipes for Improved Vein Health
It is spring time once again, and with it comes a brand new harvest of healthy fruits, veggies and other foods that help stimulate your body to fight back against vein disease.
Incorporating these powerful foods into your diet along with these delicious recipes can help keep you healthy and reduce your risk for various types of vein disease.
Avocado
This food might conjure up images of millennial Instagram posts and its popular connection as an overly expensive accompaniment with toast, but there’s a reason so many are incorporating the green fruit into their daily routines. Outside of getting thousands of likes for your post, avocado is a great source of fiber, which can help lower cholesterol and maintain a healthy weight. Keeping a healthy weight is a major factor in reducing the risks associated with vein disease. Another great aspect about avocado is that it’s rich in Vitamin C, which acts as an anti-inflammatory in order to alleviate stress or swelling in the legs.
Spicy Avocado and Cucumber Soup from Food and Wine
Asparagus
It’s time to hop on the asparagus bandwagon – the “asparaBUS” if you will. This vegetable comes in many varieties with the main kind you’ll find in stores being the classic green type. This veggie is full of an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory flavonoid known as rutin. Rutin can help strengthen your arteries and veins leading to lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure. On top of that, it helps prevent blood clots from forming so asparagus is starting to sound like one the most “RUTINest tootinest” vegetables out there.
Lemon Roasted Asparagus from A Sweet Pea Chef
Sunflower Seeds
Have you ever watched a baseball game and wondered what the players were spitting out into the dirt next to them? Well, they were spitting out sunflower seed shells because they probably know sunflower seeds have a lot of beneficial properties that can reduce the risk of varicose veins and blood clots. Starting with Spring Training in early March, baseball players pack their jaws full of the tasty kernels, taking in the rich source of Vitamin E. Vitamin E is great for preventing cell damage and drastically improves your blood circulation, therefore reducing the risk of troublesome vein diseases like DVT. Not to mention they taste great and make you look like an MLB player when you eat them shelled.
Sesame Sunflower Crunch from Naturally Ella
Garlic
No, it’s not just for keeping away vampires. This bulb plant has many advantageous qualities to it besides warding off creatures of the night. Garlic can be incorporated into many dishes or eaten raw to get its full effects, but however you choose to eat it, your veins will thank you. Besides having a delectable aroma, garlic boosts feet and leg circulation, while also cleaning your blood of any plaque buildup. It is an anti-inflammatory agent and helps circulation making it an incredible, natural part of your vein health plan.
Honey-Garlic Chicken Thighs with Carrots & Broccoli from Eating Well
These tasty spring foods can definitely help you keep healthy and assist in disease prevention, but if you are already suffering from painful varicose veins or other vein disease, foods alone are not enough. Schedule a free vein screening with Elmore Medical today.
Elmore Medical Vein & Laser Treatment Center is the premier vein specialty medical practice in the Central Valley. Dr. Mario H. Gonzalez and his staff offer years of experience and medical expertise that you won’t find anywhere else. Contact us to set up a consultation appointment.